"Mother Theresa of Calcutta" by Laura Fosado, 6C

Hi friends,My post is about a nun who worked a lot to help illness and poor peole in India. .

Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), , was a Roman Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, in 1950. For over 45 years, she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries.

Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity at the time of her death had 610 missions in 123 countries including hospices and homes for people with HIV / AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counselling programmes, orphanages and schools. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.